Month: August 2013

Art Culture Design

A Rare Glimpse Inside a Magnificent, Abandoned Shrine to Electricity

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As reported on Gizmodo. by ATTILA NAGY At the dawn of the electrical age, power plants were more than just utilitarian buildings. They were grand, soaring temples to a near-magical substance that was changing the world. Most of these buildings are now abandoned or demolished. But I recently visited one of the few that remain: the 99-year-old Kelenföld Power Plant, one of most ethereal and electrifyingly beautiful places on earth. I’ve been a longtime fan…

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Microsoft

Microsoft Acknowledges Outlook.com, Messenger, SkyDrive Outages

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As reported on TechCrunch by ALEX WILHELM Having a hard time accessing your SkyDrive files or your email on Outlook.com? You are not alone, and Microsoft says that it is working on the issue. The latest from Microsoft’s Live.com status board (remember Live.com?) is simple: Outlook.com, SkyDrive, and the ‘People’ services are all on the rocks at the moment. Some, such as ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, are not impacted by the issue. My account, for whatever it is worth, is…

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Hardware Dev

Samsung Wants You To Figure Out What To Do With Its Flexible Displays

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON Samsung is having a unique kind of contest, the company announced today, and it’s not the kind where someone walks away with a Galaxy S4. The Korean smartphone maker is asking people to submit ideas around what kind of devices to make with its flexible display technology. Have a hardware startup? Samsung wants you… to figure out what to do with their product. Samsung is looking “to encourage designers, hardware…

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Automotive

Audi teases 700HP hybrid Quattro Sport e-Tron Concept, A8 Matrix LED lighting

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As reported on Engadget. By Timothy J. Seppala We’re still a few weeks out from this year’s Frankfurt Motor Show, but that hasn’t stopped Audi from showing off concept sketches of its hybrid supercar, the Quattro Sport E-Tron.According to Autoblog, the car will debut at the show sporting a twin-turbo V8 is similar to what’s found in the company’s RS6, but it has an electric motor bolted on to help it hit 700HP and a 200MPH-plus top speed. Being that…

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Microsoft confirms Windows 8.1 launching October 17th

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As reported on Engadget. By Jamie Rigg  Microsoft has announced that Windows 8.1 will be arriving on October 17th (well, in the US, anyway), confirming an earlier rumor of a mid-month launch. For some reason, the company’s specified an exact release time of 12am on October 18th in New Zealand, which is 4am PT or 7am ET on October 17th. At that time, the free update will begin rolling out across local Windows Stores, and will be available “at retail…

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Entertainment News

‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Mad Men’ photographer warns that digital cameras can be ‘too clear’

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As reported on The Verge. By Vlad Savov Frank Ockenfels III has built up a glittering résumé of photographing some of the best known actors, musicians, and celebrities around, and though you might not have heard his name, you’ll most surely have seen his work. Spider-Man, Harry Potter, Hellboy, Thor, and Sly Stallone’s Expendables crew are just a few of the characters he has immortalized with his camera. Most recently, Ockenfels worked on promo imagery for the final…

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Following Comical Scrap With Google, Microsoft’s YouTube App Will Return To Windows Phone Today

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM Well, Windows Phone fans, you are almost home. Today Microsoft’s YouTube application for Windows Phone will return to the platform’s marketplace. At last, Google and Microsoft appear to have worked out a compromise that will allow for a fully featured YouTube experience on the latter’s mobile platform. Google and Microsoft have had a fraught year, bickering over email syncing, search dominance and mobile mapping. And the YouTube thing. Microsoft had pulled…

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Microsoft’s Upcoming Sculpt Keyboard Is The Coolest Piece Of Hardware From Redmond So Far This Year

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILHELM I suspect that you spend quite a large percentage of your life typing. Before work over email, on your smartphone during your commute, on your main computer at work, after work trying to find something on Netflix, and so on. It’s part of our daily flow, week in and month out. Given that the thing we touch more than anything else is a set of keys that we must…

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Mobile

Samsung Hennessy is official: a dual-screen flip-phone with a quad-core CPU

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As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos While we’d like to feign surprise at Samsung’s official reveal of another dual-screen Android flip phone, yesterday’s leak gave us ample warning. Samsung’s Chinese website has officially outed the Hennessy (W789), and it boasts a pair of 3.3-inch 320×480 touch displays and runs Android 4.1 on a 1.2GHz quad-core CPU. The outer screen is bordered by a trio of capacitive keys, allowing folks to zip through Google’s OS, as per usual. When it…

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Application Automotive

Honda intros Project Drive-In to save outdoor movies through digital projectors (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Fingas Drive-in theaters outlasted VHS tapes, but they may not survive the transition to digital-only movies — many drive-ins can’t afford the professional digital projectorsthey need to stay in business. Honda wants to give those outdoor venues a second chance through its new Project Drive-In rescue effort. At a minimum, the endeavor will donate digital projectors to five theaters based on web voting; further donations will depend on the results of an Indiegogo fundraising campaign. While…

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